Country Club High School, Golf Course, NC


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Okay, so it wasn’t that bad. At least, not when I attended Providence High School (first class, 1990):

1800 Pineville-Matthews Rd, Charlotte, NC 28270

I was shocked, when I added layers in Google Earth, at the plethora of golf courses and country clubs surrounding my alma mater.

I added a dark overlayer to the Google Earth export, to accenuate the madness.

I would like to note that the churches are in white, with normal capitalization, and the aforementioned faciliities are in screaming yellow and all caps. (I didn’t do that, by the by.)

Wow, Charlotte’s grown and changed since 1990.

Domestic science class, Jamestown Public High School, Fall of 1911, Canning Fruit.


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From the 1910-1912 Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, available here:
digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,434157

Adult School teacher gets students prepared for GED test.

YourTeacher.com – www.yourteacher.com – offers comprehensive GED test preparation featuring a personal math teacher inside every lesson!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

IITA International School children in class session


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IITA International School children in class session with their teachers. (file name: IS_03)

Washington International School


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Washington International School, Tregaron Campus, in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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Chip Howell and Pioneer Racing announced today that they will participate in the full inaugural season of Grand Am B-Spec racing, driving at all six race weekends. Grand-Am is a road racing sanctioning body owned and managed by NASCAR. B-Spec is a new racing car class that includes entries from Ford, Toyota, Honda, Mini, and Kia.

Howell will be driving a 2012 Mini Cooper upfitted for the series. ?It was very exciting for us when Grand-Am released the B-Spec schedule during the Rolex 24 at Daytona weekend,? says Howell.

Howell says his team is being managed by Dave Price of Price Performance, Fort Mill, SC, and that his primary sponsor is QSR, a foodservice industry trade magazine.

According to Howell, plans for racing B-Spec have been in the works for months.

?We?ve been following the development of B-Spec since last summer, literally gathering every shred of news we could find,? said Howell. ?Then, last October, when it looked like B-Spec was going to happen, we made the commitment to put together a team and move ahead with our plans. We knew this was going to be new for everyone, so we thought ?Pioneer Racing? was an appropriate team name.?

The search for the right car for us was an interesting process, says Howell. ?We considered every manufacturer, and given that the cars are meant to be equal, it really came down to where we felt we could get the most support.?

The team decided after a visit to PRI in early December to go with Mini USA, although at the time, Mini?s plans were still in the works. ?As it turned out, Rick Hendrick Mini of Charleston became the point dealership for Mini USA?s race effort, and they were testing at VIR in December. We went there, met Brad Davis, the general manager of the dealership and who head up race efforts for them, and just found that it was a great fit for us.?

Pioneer Racing will be paddocking with Rick Hendrick Mini of Charleston at Grand Am events. ?They have been outstanding to work with,? says Howell. ?From locating a car for us, their knowledge of the parts and build-out requirements, and the offer to transport and paddock will be huge for us. When it comes to racing Minis, these guys are at the top of the food chain.?

According to Dave Price, head of Price Performance, B-Spec is a great fit for everyone involved. ?It?s very exciting to be working on this, since it?s brand new. And Chip is a great kid to be working with. He learns fast, and we?re very happy to be working with him.? Price?s most recently managed multiple SCCA GTA stock car and Spec Miata efforts. ?With B-Spec, we?re all going to be learning.?

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About Chip Howell: Chip Howell, age 21, is a full time student and junior at East Carolina University where he is majoring in hospitality management. Although only auto racing since his senior year of high school, he has had numerous podium finishes in NASA, SCCA, and Skip Barber events racing SSM and MX-5. An individual with many interests, Chip was captain of his high school sailing team, built and informally raced a hydroplane, and is an avid videographer. He attended the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the New York Film Academy, and he has worked professionally shooting short films. http://www.chiphowellracing.com

About QSR: QSR magazine is the thought-leader of the $ 260 billion limited service restaurant segment with a full range of media products to the trade. QSR promotes a ?Healthy, Active Lifestyle? through it?s participation in activities such as motorsports. http://www.qsrmagazine.com

About Price Performance: Dave Price has spent nearly 40 years in the motorsports industry an is a highly regarded race prep shop, team manager, and driver. Some of his past successes include: AMA “Expert” ranked flat tracker, ARTGO “Rookie of the Year” runner up, ARRC GTA Champion and Grand AM Rolex GT crew chief.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Chip Howell

Pioneer Racing

101 Europa Drive, Suite 150

Chapel Hill, NC 27517

pioneerbspec(at)gmail(dot)com

(919) 418-4072

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MISS TOOTS SECOND GRADE CLASS, MT WASHINGTON, KCMO 1950


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MT WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS BUILT IN 1903; IT WAS BRIGHT RED BRICK WITH GYMNASIUM, THREE INSIDE PLAYROOMS, A CAFETERIA, AN AUDITORIUM WITH A STAGE, A CLASSROOM TERM AS THE "OPEN AIR CLASSROOM" FOR ANYONE WITH PHYSICAL AILMENTS BORDERING ON TB. IT WAS A TERRIFIC SCHOOL AT THE TIME. IN EACH CLASSROOM, A PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ABOVE THE BLACKBOARDS. VARIOUS PORTRAITS OF LINCOLN WERE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL. UNUSUAL FOR THAT ERA WAS A FULLY STAFFED LIBRARY WITH A WIDE SELECTION OF BOOKS. IN ADDITION TO THESE FACILITIES, MT WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAD A MUSIC ROOM AND AN ART ROOM. PLAYGROUNDS WERE SPACIOUS AND FENCED WITH NUMEROUS TYPES OF RECREATION ITEMS AND AREAS EXCLUDING SWINGS. THE SCHOOL WAS VERY PROGRESSIVE FOR THE ERA. THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS, BUT FILMS WERE USED EXTENSIVELY. THE SHADES WERE DEEP GREEN AND CREATED A PICTURE SHOW MOOD AMONG THE STUDENTS. DISCIPLINE CONSISTED OF SITTING IN THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD FOLLOWED BY STERN WARNINGS. THERE WAS NO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. IN THE 1940S AND 1950S, STUDENTS HAD TO LIVE AT LEAST THREE MILES FROM SCHOOL IN ORDER QUALFY FOR SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION.

Charleston, Beaufain Street, Memminger Elementary School


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Charleston, SC. Memminger Elementary School, near St. Philip Street service entrance.

Memminger School detached boiler room and heating building. This building was given over by the county school board at a nominal rent with a long term lease to the privately operated ECDC (Early Childhood Development Center) program operated by the College of Charleston. It is an exclusive pre-school not generally open to downtown students. It is now a well designed all-purpose room and gym with acess from the main ECDC building on Wentworth Street. Photo taken October 2006.

Originally constructed in 1953-54, school underwent a total renovation which was completed in 2001. That multi-million dollar project included roof replacement and equipping the school with all new furnishings and fixtures.

In 1998 a complete analysis of the Charleston region was conducted with published results relating to what might be expected if an earthquake were to strike the area with a similar force as the one in August of 1886, now estimated to have registered 7.3 on the Richter Scale. The report was designed to review what might happen to the urban area’s public buildings and infrastructure given the dramatic development differences that exist between Charleston in 1886 and the same city in 1998, slightly more than 100 years later. Representatives of all public agencies in the area, including top administrators from the Charleston County School District, were present for the oral presentation of the findings. The published report and conclusions was also given to the local school district facilities director soon afterwards and prior to 2001.

In the fall of 2003 and spring of 2004, the architectural firm of Harvey Gantt of Charlotte, NC, reported that the school was structurally sound and with some program design changes would likely serve the community’s needs for the future. In the fall of 2009, school district officials ordered a different engineering study, without an RFP, designed to project liabilities in the event of an earthquake registering 5.0 or greater. Five schools were singled out against an inventory of over 80 school facilities, many with conditions at greater risk than the ones singled out. The structural analysis of each of the 5 schools, all built before 1998 and prior to the implimentation of the IBC, indicated that safety risks existed in the event of a cataclismic event. The reports also indicated that each building could be made safe by following accepted practices for retrofitting structural supports to meet current seismic codes. It was not required that any of the five schools be demolished if a standard structural retrofit was attempted.

In early 2010, school district officials decided the building was seismicly unsafe and ordered the school to be immediately vacated and torn down. Community objections were ignored.

Photo and text initially posted: January 2008
Revised: 12 August 2010
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Agnes Helena Jones Elementary School


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Agnes Helena Jones Elementary School; Stony Creek VA

To Conserve Electricity All Portland. High Schools Had Their Football Games Rescheduled for Daylight Hours at the Multnomah Stadium. Normally They Were Played at Night 10/1973


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Original Caption: To Conserve Electricity All Portland. High Schools Had Their Football Games Rescheduled for Daylight Hours at the Multnomah Stadium. Normally They Were Played at Night 10/1973

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To Conserve Energy All Portland High Schools Had Their Football Games Rescheduled for Daylight Hours at the Multnomah Stadium. Normally They Were Played at Night 10/1973


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Original Caption: To Conserve Energy All Portland High Schools Had Their Football Games Rescheduled for Daylight Hours at the Multnomah Stadium. Normally They Were Played at Night 10/1973

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-12956

Photographer: Falconer, David

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Portland (Multnomah county, Oregon, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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Begin talking to them while they’re still in the crib.  Talk while you are changing them.  Sit down beside their playpen and read a book.  Give them an old book they can play with and tear up.  Get them used the feel and smell of a book.  When they begin to talk, don’t speak baby talk, use grownup language with them.  Help them try to understand why you do certain things a certain way like cooking and cleaning chores.  Get them interested in listening to you and talking back or repeating what you say.  This is all designed to get them to understand words and sentences and how they’re used together.  It will help them learn reading later on.  Studies have shown that children from houses where no one talks very much can have difficulty learning to read.

Depending on the child, around the age of three or four, get some beans or marbles or toothpicks together and start showing them how add and subtract.  For example, have six beans in a pile and take away two and ask how many are left.  Say, four and get them to repeat it.  Now add some beans and ask them how many are there now.  Tell them the answer and get them to repeat it.  Before long they will be enjoying this game and giving you the right answers.

Buy some alphabet blocks and a copy of the old standard, “The Alphabet Song”.  Play the song over and over and get them to sing along with you.  Show them the blocks with the letters on them and go through the alphabet over and over.  They will catch on fast and soon know their letters.

Continue the reading, gradually progressing from picture books where you will point to the pictures and telling them what each one is to longer books with no pictures.  Read for a while then stop and ask them questions about what you just read.  They will begin listening closely to be able to answer your questions.  Read both the picture books and other books repeatedly.  If this drives you a little batty, record your voice reading the books on a recording device that would be safe for them and let them play the stories over and over.  Believe it or not, experts claim that repetition breeds literacy.

This may all sound simple-minded, but experts in the field of education claim it imprints their little brains with the tools that will let them learn to read, write, spell and learn math quickly at a later time.  With these exercises you will successfully conduct what can be called a children’s preschool.

With support from major foundations and political heavy hitters like Barack Obama, universal preschool is the next big thing in education reform. Indeed, on the liberal wish list, it is second only to universal health care. The goal is to offer publicly funded preschool–complete with credentialed teachers and and a standardized curriculum–to all four-year olds during the school year. Advocates argue that public investments in early education will pay dividends over the long-term. Critics point out that the evidence from states that have universal preschool programs shows that the benefits kids receive from those programs fade out by the 4th grade. Since preschool attendance rates in states that have universal preschool are no higher than the national average, universal preschool wouldn’t even increase preschool attendance. It would, however, cost a lot of money, put lots of privately owned preschools out of business and dramatically decrease early education options for parents. So what do you think? Is simply expanding our failing K-12 system the best way to fix it? Hosted by Nick Gillespie, this Reason.tv documentary was written by Paul Feine and photographed by Roger M. Richards.

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The inaugural issue of The Innovation Intake, published by Innovate+Educate, will feature an article announcing the February 2012 launch of SETforJOBS.org, a partnership between the Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC) and the Business and Industry STEM Education Coalition (BISEC).

The Innovation Intake is the first nationally distributed publication dedicated to producing and driving high level conversation around critical STEM issues. With contributions from the nation’s thought leaders in the areas of policy, industry, education, media and philanthropy, The Innovation Intake aims to turn conversation into action and take the idea of information sharing to a whole new level. The quarterly eZine will be distributed nationwide and available through their website.

The first issue features an article written by Susan Lavrakas, Director, Workforce at Aerospace Industries Association, delineating the value added of belonging to the Business and Industry STEM Education Coalition and announcing an exciting new collaboration: SETforJOBS.org. As a free-form, social networking community, this site will allow associations and states to enroll their members in a platform that fosters communication, idea sharing and mentoring with national, local and state participants. SETforJOBS.org will be a multimedia site with video segments, including the Real People, Real Stories series, photos, articles, interactive activities, contest, educational tools and more. EIC is leading the BISEC communication efforts with this site, which is unlike any other created for the STEM community. ?BISEC seeks to facilitate communication and alignment among organizations to achieve greater workforce readiness,? says Rick Stephens, chair of BISEC and Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, Boeing.

EIC hopes that the site begins as a discussion platform and blossoms into a mentoring and educational portal where young people discover their passion for science, engineering and technology and gain insight into job opportunities in these fields.

The Innovation Intake also features an extended look at EIC?s Ready on the S.E.T. and… ACTION! initiative which serves to revive American interest in science, engineering and technology (S.E.T.) and will reposition these crucial issues and supplement an innovative approach to reach a wider audience nationwide. EIC is recognizing the positive work being done in the creative community through the S.E.T. Awards which highlight some of the most accurate, compelling, educational and entertaining performances and productions in these fields.

About the Business and Industry STEM Education Coalition (BISEC)

BISEC is a group of leading associations including the Aerospace Industries Association, National Defense Industrial Association, National Association of Broadcasters, National Association of Manufacturers, National Cable & Telecommunications Association and others, representing key employers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals working to facilitate communication and alignment among organizations to achieve greater workforce readiness.

About The Innovation Intake

The Innovation Intake is the first nationally distributed publication dedicated to producing and driving high level conversation around critical STEM issues. With contributions from the nation’s thought leaders in the areas of policy, industry, education, media and philanthropy, The Innovation Intake aims to turn conversation into action and take the idea of information sharing to a whole new level.

About Entertainment Industries Council

EIC, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1983 by leaders of the entertainment industry to bring the power and influence of the industry to bear on communication about health and social issues. The organization is considered to be the chief pioneer of entertainment outreach and one of the premiere success stories in the field of entertainment education. EIC provides information resources for entertainment creators through innovative and time-proven services and methods of “encouraging the art of making a difference” from within the entertainment industry. EIC produces the simulcast national television special PRISM Awards Showcase which addresses accurate portrayals of prevention, treatment and recovery from drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and mental health concerns. The organization also produces the S.E.T Awards, honoring positive and non-stereotypical portrayals of science, engineering and technology.

EIC also addresses issues such as diabetes, ADHD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, foster care, women’s health, firearm safety and injury prevention, sun safety and skin cancer prevention, human trafficking, terrorism and homeland security, eating disorders and obesity, seat belt use and traffic safety, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The organization has also launched an initiative to increase the public profile and interest in science, engineering and technology. EIC?s web site is http://www.eiconline.org. The PRISM Awards web site is http://www.prismawards.com.

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